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How Cheese is Made

From picking up the milk to aging and curing the final cheese product.

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Cheese Making

The Wisconsin Milk Marketing board has a very good video on making cheese. The cheese making video provides a simple walk through of the entire process from getting the milk, pasteurizing the milk, adding starter and rennet, cutting the curd and finally milling the curd and pressing it for curing or aging.

Home Cheese Making

Making cheese at home is fastly becoming a popular trend much like home brewing beer. Also like home brewing beer, your first attempt at making a fine cheese probably won't be a success. However, with the proper patience and will to try different recipies and techniques, creating your own blend of cheese can become a fairy enjoyable hobby.

Jack Schmidling offers up a good receipe for making cheese at home.